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IMPROVEMENT IN KETTLES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

' Be it known that I, ALFRED SOWER, of Harlem, in the city, county, and State of Now York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Kettles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, refercnce'being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification.

The present invention relates to kettles, so called, such as are used upon cooking and other stoves, or heating apparatus for the boiling of water or other liquids. And this invention consists in so constructing the said kettles that the products of combustion from the fire-chamber of the stove, etc., in passing to the chimney or exit flue oi the store, can be made, before escaping to the exit flue, to pass through said kettles, whereby a greater amount of heat is imparted to the Water or other liquid dontained in such kettles, and the water is consequently' enabled to be boiled in a much shorter time than with kettles made of the construction and form in ordinary use previous to this invention.

In the accompanying plate of drawings, my improvement in kettles is illustrated, the figure being an elevation or view of one side of a. kettle, with its lower portion in central vertical section, to more fully show the construction of the same.

A, in the drawings, represents the body portion of the kettle, which in form or shape and size may be similar to any of the kettles now ini'common use. B, the bottom plate of the kettle, the lower portion of the kettle being constructed in the ordinary manner to enable it to extend below the surface oi" the top plate of the stove on-which it is placed, through the usual opening therein. 0, a series of short tubes, inserted at their lower ends in the bottom plate B of the kettle, from which, extending upward, they are inserted at their upper ends in the lower plate D of a box or chamber, E, upon the inside of the kettle; these tubes forming a communication between the chamber or box E and the fire-chamber of the stove on which thekettle is placed. F, a pipe communicating at one end with the box or chamber E, in one side plate of which it is inserted, and at its other projecting outside of the body A of the kettle sufficiently to receive one end of an elbow pipe, G, through which it is intended to form a communication between the said chamber or box E and the exit flue or chimney of the stove.

From the above description it is plainly apparent that'if a kettle of the construction explained he placed or set in the ordinary opening or hole in the top plate of a stove adapted to receive it, and acommuuication be established between the pipe G of the kettle and the exit due or chimney of the stove, beyond the point where the damper is arranged therein, it such damper be then closed, a passage for the products of combustion from the fire-chamber of the stove to the exit pipe or flue will thus be established through the vertical tubes: 0 and chamber or box E of the kettle, whereby, as such tubes and box or chamber are surrounded by the water or other liquid contained in the kettle. the time required to boil or heat such Water is greatly decreased, as the products of combustion are thereby caused to more fully and quickly impart their heat to such water, and the whole heat, as it were, of the fire can be concentrated upon the kettle. In lieu of connecting the kettle, as has been hereinabove described, with the exit flue through a pipe, such pipe may be dispensedwith and yet the heating or boiling of the Water contained in the kettle greatly hastened, as by the construction of the same the heat in the products of combustion is made to diiTuso itself more thoroughly through the water, as is obvious.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Pa tc nt The chamber E, in combination with the tubes 0 and pipes F G, substantially as herein shown and described for the purpose specified.

The above specification of my invention s gned by me this 10th day of October, 1866.

' ALF-RED SOWER.

Witn esses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, Wu. F; MCNAHARA. 

